David Ross doesn’t just catch Jon Lester

Monday

Jun 30, 2014 at 4:21 PM

BOSTON — The widespread perception is that David Ross only catches Jon Lester. Ross also has caught Jake Peavy semi-regularly, however; he was behind the plate for Peavy on Monday, the seven time in 17 starts this season that Peavy has thrown to Ross

Brian MacPherson Journal Sports Writer brianmacp

BOSTON — The widespread perception is that David Ross only catches Jon Lester. Ross also has caught Jake Peavy semi-regularly, however; he was behind the plate for Peavy on Monday, the seven time in 17 starts this season that Peavy has thrown to Ross.

With starting catcher A.J. Pierzynski catching a Sunday night game in New York and the team getting back to Boston at 4 a.m. Monday morning, it was natural that Ross would catch Peavy on Monday.

Ross hasn’t offered much offense this season — he was hitting .180 with a .240 on-base percentage entering play Monday — but he’d also hit solo home runs in back-to-back starts. He homered off Oakland’s Tommy Milone at O.co Coliseum on June 22, and he took New York’s Masahiro Tanaka deep on Saturday night at Yankee Stadium.

“He’s always been a good fastball hitter,” John Farrell said. “When he’s gotten into some fastball counts, whether in the middle of an at at-bat or first pitch, he obviously has the ability to hit the ball out of the ballpark.”